Re: [PATCH] kill flush_dirty_buffers

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The other issue is that I suspect that "flushtime" is completely useless
> these days, and should just be dropped. If we've decided to start flushing
> stuff out, we shouldn't stop flushing just because some buffer hasn't
> quite reached the proper age yet. We'd have been better off maybe deciding
> not to even _start_ flushing at all, but once we've started, we might as
> well do the dirty buffers we see (up to a maximum that is due to IO
> _latency_, not due to "how long since this buffer was dirtied")

OTOH, we don't want flushing to _stop_ early because we already
submitted lots of IO ;)

Rik
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